ADEKUNLE ADESANMI
London
Summary
Motivated Scrum Master with 10 years of experience. Recognised for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction. Expert in Agile methodologies, cloud migration, and solutions.
Resourceful and well-organised with excellent leadership and team-building record. Demonstrated history of meeting company goals and promoting best practices. Thrives under pressure and adapts to challenges with ingenuity and resilience.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Scrum Master
Virgin Money
London, Greater London
2022.07 - 2023.12
- Worked with project managers to ensure timely, cost-effective, and scope-aligned delivery of project expectations.
- Led and facilitate team meetings and events, including Sprint planning, daily stand-up, backlog refinement, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
- Achieved 21% increase in chatbot resolution rates within 5 months, surpassing annual target of 75% by implementing Agile ways of working.
- Worked with the Product Owner and Business Analyst to ensure that the Product backlog is managed efficiently.
- Coordinated release activities ensuring that all release candidates were properly assessed and approved.
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
G Network
London, Greater London
2022.01 - 2022.06
- Conducted business and team agility assessments, leveraging results to pinpoint areas of improvement.
- Coached DevSecOps practices organization-wide, leading to significant reductions in lead and cycle times.
- Created security awareness training for teams and the broader organization
- Revolutionised business operations and surpassed targeted forecasts by implementing Scrum and establishing Agile methodologies, resulting in the successful cloud migration and the rollout of ultra-fast broadband to over 80K premises in London
- Facilitated all scrum event.
- Reported all required and relevant metrics to the stakeholders.
Scrum Master
BT
Birmingham, West Midlands
2021.04 - 2021.12
- Established a culture of relentless improvement within the team resulting in a 108% increase in orders, surpassing quarterly revenue targets
- Launched three Scrum teams and helped them to become self-organized
- Collaborated with BT Openreach to maximize the value received through the squads’ interaction with them.
Scrum Master
Vodafone Group Plc
Newbury, West Berkshire
2021.02 - 2021.03
- Restored order to the teams by reinforcing basic Agile practices, resulting in 50% reduction in defects and 20% increase in velocity
- Worked with Release Train Engineers to contribute to the improvement of the value stream.
- Facilitated all necessary preparation and readiness for PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect and Adapt events.
- Facilitated all scrum events i.e. Daily Stand-Up, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration planning, Iteration Review, Planning Poker and Backlog Refinement
- Coordinated inter-team collaboration on the release train.
Scrum Master/QA Engineer
Purplebricks Group Plc
Solihull, West Midlands
2015.11 - 2020.08
- Executed functional testing of user stories
- Worked with the Scrum team and product owner to formulate acceptance criteria for user stories
- Perform thorough positive and negative testing and cross-browser testing on web applications
- Collaborated with the development team and product management to remediate vulnerabilities effectively
- Led a cross-functional Scrum team to break down monolithic architectures to microservices in readiness for the cloud migration, which contributed to a 218% increase in revenue.
- Devised comprehensive test plans and test cases to facilitate streamlined execution of functional tests.
- Ensured teams maintained focus and worked towards the sprint goal.
- Ensured the flow of work is always visualized and efficient.
QA Analyst
Education City
Oakham, Rutland
2014.03 - 2015.03
- Assumed ownership of the quality assurance process, ensuring developed functionality aligns with expectations and reducing production bug by 50%.
- Crafted detailed test plans derived from user stories and acceptance criteria and systematically logged and tracked bugs using Azure DevOps.
- Performed positive and negative testing as well as cross-browser testing on web applications.
- Collaborated with developers and Product Owners to develop acceptance criteria for user stories.
- Executed test cases and made sure the features developed were as expected.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Animal Science
University of Ibadan
Nigeria 1997.05 - 2002.09
Skills
- Advanced Scrum Master and SAFe Program Consultant
- 10 years experience working in Agile environments
- Expert in different Agile frameworks – Scrum, Kanban, ScrumXP, SAFe
- Experienced with collaboration and product management tools - – SAFe Collaborate, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Jira, Teams, Slack, Mural, Miro
- Working knowledge of DevOps, DevSecOps, and Cloud technologies
- Extensive understanding, modeling, and coaching of Agile practices and principles
- Leadership and team management skills – experience in creating and leading high-performance teams
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to convey and simplify complex ideas fluently to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent Stakeholder management skills with the ability to gain influence and get support for initiatives
- Experienced in Software Development and Product Lifecycles, Product Backlog management and refinement
- Release and deployment coordination
- IT security and networking
- Operational support
- Logistical planning
- Department management
Projects
Implementing a SOC and Honeynet in Microsoft Azure, github.com/KunleAdesanmi/AzureCloud-SOC, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM), Log Analytics, NIST 800 – 53
Affiliations
- Gym
- Football
Timeline
Scrum Master
Virgin Money
2022.07 - 2023.12
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
G Network
2022.01 - 2022.06
Scrum Master
BT
2021.04 - 2021.12
Scrum Master
Vodafone Group Plc
2021.02 - 2021.03
Scrum Master/QA Engineer
Purplebricks Group Plc
2015.11 - 2020.08
QA Analyst
Education City
2014.03 - 2015.03
Bachelor of Science - Animal Science
University of Ibadan
1997.05 - 2002.09